McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Open Letters: An Open Letter to Your Unreadable Hashtag. ” Of course hashtags existed to convey emotion and tell a story! Once the possibility presented itself, there was no going back. Suddenly, it was literally trending to cram multiple words together behind a pound symbol, and you were born: the unreadable hashtag. […]
Four Leaf Clovers, Question Paths, & Literal Names
Yesterday, I decided I’d look for four leaf clovers getting in and out of my car. Not hanging out searching, just opening my eyes and paying a bit more attention. Wikipedia tells me there’s one four leaf clover per 10,000 three leaf clovers. What surprises me is despite their relative rarity just how many four […]
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As We May Think Poem
Just having fun. All direct quotes from As We May Think. […]
Walking at Work – Week 21
This turned out extra crisp and is worth looking at full size. The gold of Spring. […]
Weekly Web Harvest (weekly)
Add an expiration date to your tweets using a simple hashtag | The Verge Besides keeping your digital detritus to a minimum, there may be practical uses for the app. One meteorologist has already found a neat use for it: preventing storm warnings from being retweeted once they’re no longer in place. Spirit follows Efemr, […]
oEmbed Additions in WordPress
One of the minor hassles of running WordPress Multisite is dealing with the rules about HTML cleansing- mainly the removal of iframe elements. You could install unfiltered MU but the plugin itself warns you that’s end-of-the-world dangerous and the plugin hasn’t been updated in two years. The combination might make one a bit nervous. In […]
Walking at Work – Week 20
Several dogs in honor of Alan “The Cog Dog” Levine. I’m cheating a bit as the second two were taken this weekend but they come with good stories and this is my blog so I figure all is fair. I can’t remember the name of this dog but he was full of this kind of […]
Weekly Web Harvest (weekly)
Terasem, Transhumanism and the Singularity: Technology and Religion – TIME “These are satellite dishes, but they aren’t for TV. They’re meant for dispatching “mindfiles,” the memories, thoughts and feelings of people who wish to create digital copies of themselves and fling them into space with the belief that they’ll eventually reach some benevolent alien species.” […]
What Teachers Make?
I know I head further out on the fringe each hour of each day but I’ve always had a problem with the Taylor Mali’s “What Teachers Make“. I’m sure you’ve seen it on facebook or on some email forward. Essentially, he’s responding to a jackass at a dinner party who’s criticizing teachers and I’m ok […]
Butcher’s Human Predator Fact Check
I passed on this Wikipedia list of people who mysteriously disappeared 1 on Twitter last night which led to the following reply from Luke Neff. "List of people who disappeared mysteriously" http://t.co/pKTIGesF53 via @twoodwar reminds me of http://t.co/R4mMhWUsz0 — Luke (@lukeneff) April 17, 2014 “Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand […]